Implementing a Point‐Based Rewards System as an Educational Tool in Children's Home: From Standardisation to Coconstruction and Negotiation

Abstract

From a wider educational ethnography, we analysed the implementation of a point‐based reward system as an educational tool in a Spanish children's home. This is examined within a policy and ideological framework strongly influenced by Evidence‐Based Practice, Standardization and New Public Management. The findings show, first, how this system relied on a balance between greater use of standard tools and the experience of the managers; second, how, in practice, basic procedures regarding the system's rigour and objectivity were altered; and third, how the ratings given to evaluate children were very often coconstructed and influenced by broader individual, social and institutional processes.

The Integrated Development of Furniture Design and Children’s Characteristics Based on Artificial Intelligence

“…e layout of the bed should avoid affecting the sleep of children, such as doors, windows, and objects that stimulate children's vision, or place the bed in an area with weak light to create a good resting environment for children. In addition, parents should guide their children to form good sleep habits from an early age to ensure that children have adequate sleep [19]. Storage function area: children will inevitably have many clothes, hats and toys, so the children's room is inseparable from the necessary storage space.…”